We’ve all been there at some point or another. We’ve misjudged our exposure, knocked a dial, the sun’s disappeared behind a cloud, or maybe our flash just hasn’t recycled yet. Whatever the reason, we’ve all had underexposed shots that we would actually quite like if we could better see what’s going on in them.
Well, in this video, commercial food photographer Scott Choucino shows us how he recovers those occasional underexposed shots using Lightroom. These same techniques will also work when using Adobe Camera Raw into Photoshop, too.
While you’re never going to get the same level of quality that you would have done if you’d exposed the shot properly to begin with, it’ll still be good for plenty of tasks, such as social media or web use. Sure, you won’t be able to make huge highly detailed prints, but raw files offer a lot of latitude these days for underexposure recovery.
As well as cameras offering greater dynamic range and shadow detail, the software, too, has also become much better at recovering that underexposed detail, too. Capture One and other applications also offer similar capabilities, so don’t think you can only do this in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw.
Of course, it’s still better to try not to make the mistakes that lead to accidental underexposure in the first place.
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